The Budget  Mr. Speaker, it is a pleasure to rise today in debate on the budget. In the lead-up to this budget, the earliest federal budget in recent history, our government undertook the broadest and most comprehensive consultations ever. Our government met with and listened to thousands o

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I will remind the member that we are in a time of unprecedented global economic instability that is rapidly changing at the present time. Our government foresaw that and we put a lot of measures in place to ensure our economy would remain one of the strongest throug

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, the member mentioned tough times. If we want to see true tough times in this country, we would put the NDP in this place over here. My colleague mentioned tax cuts. I would be hard-pressed to believe that removing tax cuts would be the proper way to stimulate the ec

Resumption of debate on Address in Reply  Mr. Speaker, I congratulate you on your election to the Chair once again. I will resume where I left off prior to question period. In addition to the priorities I spoke about previous to question period, there is one other issue that is near and dear to my heart, and that is sho

Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply  Madam Speaker, first I would like to thank the hon. member for Kenora for agreeing to split his time with me. After 91 years of Liberal representation in that riding, we are very excited to have a such a great member in the House of Commons. Thanks are due to the people of Kenora